518 ARCTlADiE. 



its extremity. Underside of fore wing with the crimson extending 

 to vein 1 towards base, then to submedian fold. 



Sab. Mexico, Tehuacan (Muller), 1 6,1 ?. Exp. 28 

 millim. 



513. Cisthene menea, insert (syn.) : — 



Ruscino arida, Skinner, Ent. News, Philad. xvii. p. 95 (1906). 



U.S.A., Arizona, Cochise Co., San Bernardino Ranch. 



Cisthene major, Roths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 230 (1912). 

 Hab. ign., type f $ in Coll. Rothschild. 



Larva. Dyar, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash. xiii. p. 229 (1911). 



Pale vellow ; four or five irregular partly confused crimson hands 

 on each somite, the broadest at the incisures and all irregularis 

 confluent on subventral area ; ventral surface pale tinged with 

 crimson ; warts small with very long spreading curved pale yellow 

 hairs ; a wart above the stigmatal wart on somites ii. iii. and wart i. 

 of the abdominal somites two-haired ; wart iv. single haired, placed 

 directly above the spiracle ; head pale reddish brown, the sutures 

 paler. 



519 a. Cisthene argentinensis. (Plate XXIX. fig. 20.) 



Cisthene argentinensis, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 230 (1912). 



Head and thorax black-brown ; tegulre yellow ; abdomen yellow, 

 black-brown at base and extremity and with dorsal series of black- 

 brown spots, a ventral series of black-brown patches, small towards 

 base, confluent and covering the whole surface towards extremity. 

 Fore wing black-brown ; a slightly curved pale yellow medial hand 

 with sinuous edges, expanding somewhat from below costa to median 

 nervure ; a curved subapical yellow bar from below costa to below 

 vein 5 and a triangular subterminal patch between veins 3 and 1. 

 Hind wing yellow ; the base black-brown from middle of costa to 

 inner margin near base ; the terminal area black-brown, its inner 

 edge incurved from below vein 3 to vein 1. Underside of fore wing 

 with the outer edge of the band excurved at middle, the subapical 

 bar broader. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with the black extending to middle of wing, 

 emitting a streak below costa to near the terminal band and in 

 submedian interspace extending to the terminal band. 



Hab. Argentina, Tucuman (Stembach), Salta (SteinbacTi), 

 type f 2 i" C°H. Rothschild, Rioja (G/aco)/ielli), 1 J. Exp. <5 

 3G, 2 30 millim. 



521 a. Cisthene triplaga. (Plate XXIX. fig. 21.) 

 Cisthene triplaga, Hrapsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xv. p. 434 (1905). 



Black ; teguhe orange ; abdomen with subdorsal orange patches 

 on 2nd segment and lateral and ventral stripes except on terminal 



